The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-02-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
THE Merchants National Bank of Dead
wood, Oak, has closed its doors.
SUBMISSION gained a victory in the Mis-.
souri, House Of Representatives on the 18TH
THE National Insurance Union held its
semi.annual meeting at Louisville, Ky, on
the 10Th.
ROBGRT BONNER is said to have declined
an offer of 100000 for Maud s., the Queen
of the Turf
IT is reported that Parnelrs mantle as
leader of the IRISH Nationalist is to fall
or Justin Mccarthy.
TIE Pope is represented as baing
pleased with the prospect of victory for
Bismarck in the coming German elections.
THE Mardi Gras festivities at New Or
leans were inaugurated on the 18th by
grand carnival celebration by the X nights
of Menus.
PHILADELPHIA mint officials on the 18th
secured a counterfeit $3.50 gold piece Of
1852, for which they have been searching
for many years.
IN the British House of Commons, on
h,-M NJ, Do oil 10 ho,
Irish affairs considered was defeated by
vote of 242 to 107.
A PUBLIC meeting at Leicester England,
on the 10Th, Endorsed the free coinage of
silver policy, and complimented number
of United States Senators and members of
Congress.
ARLIE LATHAM of the st. Louis Brown
Stocking Base Ball Club, was defeated on
the night of tho 18th in a wrestling match
by Eugen Wiswell, young athlete, at
Lynn, Mass.
Ir is expected that st. Louis will soon
be without an organized militia, their dis
bandment being the result of the Legisla-
ture's failure to pass the Militia Appro-
priaticn bill
THE steamship Wisconsin, which went
ashore off Fire Island on the 18th, was
got of without any serious damage and
was lowed to her anchorage by the steam
ship Nevada,
The House of Representatives at Wash
ington listened on the 10Th to eulogies on
the late Senator Logan, addresses being
made by prominent members on both
sides Of the House.
ERAsTUs WIMAN, of New York, in a
speech at banquet of the Toronto (Ont.)
Board Of Trade on the night Of the 10th
defended the course Canada has taken in
the fisheries dispute.
THE officials Of the Amalgamated As.
soclation of Iron and Steel Workers are
collecting data ON which to predicate their
next scale of wages, which promises to be
higher than the present.
AK extensive plot has been discovered
for Polish rising in the event of a Russo
Austrian or Russo-German war. Many
imperial officers and officials are implicat-
ed Twenty persons have been arrested.
A LARGE cave, as dark and gloomy as
midnight, with two human skeletons, q
big sum of gold, and an inexhaustible
amount of unwritten murder history, has
just been discovered in Marshall County,
KY.
THE Newfoundland Legislature was
opened on the 18th The speech (bv com
mission) from the throne indicated that
but little relief can be ex pected by suffer
ing colonists from the British Govern
ment,
BosToN CoHBErT, the slayer of John
Wilkes Booth, has been declared insane
and has been sent to the Kansas In
sane Asylum He was assistant door
keeper of the Kansas House Of Represent
atiyes.
ARCHIBALD FORBES and other veteran
British war correspondents have been en-
gagged TO start at a moments notice fol
the front on an outbreak of hostilties
Forbes is detailed to accompany the Ger
man army
TnE Government receipts for the frs
half of February amount to lS.50OOOO al
average OF over Sl,0D,OJJ day. The eX
pendiiures have been unusually heavy
the pension payments amounting to abou
$g0,00Q,0J0.
Prince HOHENLoHE has issued u stirrin
election manifesto to the voters of AlsacC
Lorraine, holding up the horrors Of posi-
BILE war with France to them in the even
of a government defeat at the polls in til
pending elections.
CHICAGO railroad conferences ON tn
18th determined to have rate-cutter
disciplined, and to abolish free passes
theatrical rates and kindred courtesies'
conformity with the spirit of the Inter
State Commerce law
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IT is expected that a call for SllOO'OI
three percent. bonds will be issued in
few days, and that the entire three-peI
cent loan, of which there is now abou
s40,OOO,OOO outstanding, will BE- entirel
extinguished before the lst of July.